Improvement in lamp-shades



@niet fum @anni @mit JAMES EMERY, or BUGKSPORT, MAINE.

Letters Patent No'. 66,576, dated July 9, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-SHADES.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHO THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Beit known that I, JAMEs E'MERY, of Bucksport, in the county of Hancock, and State of Maine, have invented :lnew and useful or improved Lump-Shade or Screen; and .do hereby. declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, ond represented Vin the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure l is a front view.

Figure 2, a longitudinal section and Figure 3, top view of it.

In such drawings, A denotes a, screen nl :ldc of pnstehonrd or other suitable material, and of a. rectangular or other suitable sha-pe, and provided with two slits, a a, made through it to receive a thin carrier or strip of 'metnh B. This carrier is trifurcuted :tt its upper, and is bent around at or neztr its lower end, as shown at b.

The middle one, c, of the three prongs c d d of the cnil-ier, is bent in the form of :t hook, and eachof the other prongs is bent with respect to the restof the carrier in manner as exhibited in the drawings. The carrier slides through the slits of the screen, the friction of the slits on the carrier serving to overcome the weight of the screen, and rctnin it in any position within the limits of its motion in such carrier.

In using the shadethe middle prong oi' the carrier isto be`hooked upon the edge of the vupper end of a. lamp-chimney, and the other prongs are to rest at their extremities against the outer surface of the chimney, so as to support the shade in an inclined position. The screen may be provided or ornamented with such devices as may be deemed advisable. i A

I claim the new-manufacture of lamp-shade, or the combination ot' the screen A and the three-pronged carrier B, constructed and applied together substantially in manner as specified.

JA Si. EMERY.

Witnesses:

A. F. PAGE, J. W. STOVER. 

